Axpo has announced the completion today (13 October) of its first LNG bunkering operation in the Port of Valencia, Spain. The fuelling saw Alisios – the Axpo-chartered 12,500 cubic metre (cbm) LNG bunker vessel that was launched in Huelva earlier this year – refuel an unnamed container vessel, with bio-LNG constituting more than half of the LNG supplied, Axpo said in a statement sent to ship.energy. ‘As Spain’s largest port for container traffic and the fifth-busiest container port in Europe, Valencia is a strategically important location,’ said Axpo’s Head of Small-Scale LNG, Daniele Corti. ‘This operation further strengthens our presence […]

Environmental commodity trader STX Group has informed ship.energy that it has made its first offtake of Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBO) compliant e-methane from TURN2X’s production facility in Miajadas, Spain. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (12 October), STX said that the first delivery took place earlier this month and the two companies are now ‘in active discussions to work together on future commercial-scale e-methane projects’. E-Methane is a synthetic fuel produced from renewable hydrogen from electrolysis and biogenic CO2 and STX said that the TURN2X offtake is ‘a first step in building a broader RFNBO offering’. Diederik […]

Copenhagen-headquartered Blue Energy Partners has announced it has secured new ‘double-digit million-dollar’ external financing with two global partners. The agreements cover vessel financing, which will strengthen the company’s physical operations, and trade finance and working capital, which will provide additional capacity to accelerate the company’s international trading activities, Blue Energy Partners said in a statement sent to ship.energy. The company did not disclose the exact amount of the financing. As previously reported, the company was established as Global Fuel Supply in 2022 before rebranding to Blue Energy Partners earlier this year. It operates bunker barges in West Africa, supplies ISCC […]